Improvement in papering or putting up needles



DAVID EVANS.

Improvement in Papering or Putting up Needles.

Pqtented Dec. 2, 1871.

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IMPROVEMENT lN PAPERING OR PUTTING UP NEEDLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 121,860, dated December 12, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID EVANS, of Studley, in Warwickshire, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Papering or Putting up Needles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents, in perspective, a wrapper, case, or envelope, partially opened to show the needles contained therein, as also the operation of the invention. Figs. 2 and 3 represent, in perspective, other forms of wrappers, case, or envelope, with the flaps opened up, unfastened, or unsealed so as to show the needles and their support within. Fig. 4 represents, in perspective, the wrapper, case, or envelope, and the needles contained therein, in a form known as a needlebook, and having several needle-holders combined therewith.

Similar letters of reference, in the several separate figures, of the device in the drawing.

My invention consists in un'ting the needlewhere they occur denote like parts holder to the flap of the wrapper, case, envelope, or book so that the act of raising or opening up said flap will draw up the needle-holder and needles from the pocket of said inclosure and the closing down of said flap admit of the To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the same with reference to the drawing.

A represents a wrapper, case, or envelope, which may be made of paper, cloth, leather, or other flexible material, and pasted, sewed, or otherwise fashioned so as to form a pocket or inclosure, over the mouth or entrance of which a flap, a, is made to fold. B is a needle-holder, made of paper, cloth, leather, or any other suitably flexible and strong material, or of parts or fashioned. This needle-holder B is fastened or united to the flap a. of the outer case A, as shown at b, so that the act of raising or opening out the pocket of the case or wrapper, and the act of closing down said flap a admits of the holder and needles again descending into said pocket, so that the needles may be seen and selected with out taking them in the hands or fingers, and again inclosed in the wrapper or' case without handling.

When made of paper the holder B may be simply pasted or glued to the flap 0. of the case or wrapper. But they may be united in any (.ther Way, as by eyelets or by stitching; or they may be united to some common or intermediate piece or part, so that the moving of the flap a moves or admits of the movement of the needle-holder, and it would be possible, though probably expensive, to make the envelope, wrapper, or case and the holder all out of one piece of material or the flap and bolder; all of which, it is obvious would involve the essence of my invention.

As shown at Fig. 2, the needles may pass un der a piece of cloth, 01, secured to the holder and their points he supported by a turned-eve: portion,e. Or, as seen in Fig. 3, the needles Ina; be stuck through a piece of cloth and the clotl held to the portion B by passing it under a keep er, f, formed out of the holder itself. There are of course, various ways of uniting the needles t the holder and of combining the holder with th flap of the wrapper or case; and I do not confin myself to any of them, so long as the act of rai: in g or lowering the flap of the outer case or wra per draws out and slips in the needles, as here inabove explained.

At Fig. 4. is shown a needle-book constructe and operating in the same general manner mode. This needle-book is large enough to CO] tain several sets or sizes of needles in the san or in separate holders, but united to or cor bined with the flap a so as to rise and fall wi1 said flap. When made of this size leather 1 cloth may be used, in whole or in part, in ma ing the outer case; and an elastic band, clas or other fastening, such as are used on pock books, may be connected with it to fasten In the smaller packages, as at Figs. 1, 2, 3, t flap may enter a slot or keeper, as at g, to hc it shut.

flap, the holder, as also the needles 0 therein or thereon, will be partially drawn up or out of the Having thus fully described my invention, wl

I claim therein as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent in, papering or pntti ng up needles, 1s-

The combination of the needleholder with the flap 0f the envelope, wrapper, or case, so that the act of raising 0r lowering; said flap will draw the needles cut of or allow them to pass into, or

partially so, the pocket of said envelope, wrapper, 01 case, substantially as described.

DAVID EVANS.

Witnesses:

CHAS. PARHAM, J. W. GOLGON. 

